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The CUAHSI Water Data Center: Next generation data services for the water sciences
Water is everywhere. This reflection underscores the importance of
instilling hydrologic and earth science literacy in educators, students, and
the general public, but also presents challenges for water scientists and
educators in distributing, accessing, and interpreting water data.
Scientific data about water is collected and distributed by many different
sources at many different scales; from federal agencies, to scientific
investigators, to citizen scientists. As competition for limited water
resources increases, increasing access to and understanding of
information about the nation's and the world's water will be critical.

The CUAHSI Water Data Center (WDC) maintains a web based system for
sharing hydrologic data that can address this unmet need. The WDC is
building upon a large prototype developed over the past decade - to
create and maintain production-quality water data services.
WATER IS EVERYWHERE
Jon Pollak, Alva Couch, Marie Martin, Martin Seul

The Consortium of Universities for the Advancement of Hydrologic Science, Inc. (CUAHSI)

The CUAHSI HIS
Using CUAHSI HIS: The HydroDesktop Client Achieving the Mission
The CUAHSI Hydrologic Information System (HIS) is an internet-based system
for sharing hydrologic data. It consists of three components: a client
(HydroDesktop),a data server software stack (HydroServer), and a central
metadata registry (HydroCatalog). These components use a suite of web
services, WaterOneFlow, and a type of XML, WaterML, to transmit data.
WaterML has been designated a recognized international standard for time-
series data by the Open Geospatial Consortium.
HIS uses a Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) like those mandated by US
government agencies for distribution of government-collected data. The SOA
provides an environment similar to search engines like Google, but specifically
for water data sources:

How the Web Works
HTML web language for text and pictures
Catalog
(Google)
Web Server
(CNN.com)
Browser
(Firefox)
Access
HydroCatalog
HydroServer HydroDesktop
Data access
WaterML web language for water data
How HIS Works
Map Interface Data Values GIS Layers
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This work has been supported by National Science Foundation grant numbers 03-
26064, 07-53521, 1248152, and 1338606. The CUAHSI HIS has been developed by
a large team of colleagues including those from the University of Texas, San
Diego Supercomputing Center, Utah State University, Brigham Young University,
Drexel University, City College of New York, and University of South Carolina.
Access over 100 hydrologic data sources
including over 25 universities, state and
provincial agencies, and multiple federal
agencies with one catalog!

Data Access with HydroDesktop
A services-oriented architecture enables different data access clients to be
customized for specific purposes. Currently, the main data access client is
HydroDesktop, a program for the Windows that combines an open-source GIS
package with a data discovery client that searches the HIS Central catalog.

HydroDesktop searches for data by:
Geography (Bounding box or GIS Coverage)
Time
Property Measured
Data Source
Place-Based Education with Water Data Using CUAHSI HIS: The HIS Central Metadata Catalog The HIS Central Catalog
HydroDesktop is free and
open source!
www.HydroDesktop.org
Water Data Center Catalog Information Model & Semantics
A Community-Moderated Controlled
Vocabulary
CUAHSI maintains a community
moderated controlled vocabulary for
13 fields in the ODM metadata
profile. This system includes a
centralized database, online
submission of new terms and editing
of existing terms, and web services
for broadcasting the controlled
vocabulary. The system is moderated
by CUAHSIs user support staff.
An Ontology for Data Discovery
Data Publication Options
A screenshot of HydroDesktop showing the Legend, Map Interface, and a Graph showing data
values that have been downloaded.
The Observations Data Model (ODM)
Variable Name
Investigator 1: Temperature, water
Investigator 2: Water Temperature
Investigator 3: Temperature
Investigator 4: Temp.
Controlled Term

Sunshine duration
Temperature
Turbidity

In addition to the controlled vocabularies, CUAHSI maintains an
ontology of variables that facilitates keyword search. Variables are
tagged to an ontological concept, which are often associated with
synonyms as well. The Ontology is divided into three major branches:
Physical, Chemical, and Biological.
The current information model for the CUAHSI HIS is ODM 1.1.1. The
schema is pictured above. The structure is a star diagram with a table for
data values in the center and is surrounded by tables that describe the
metadata. The most common implementation of ODM is a SQL database.
Cloud-Based Publication with CUAHSI
Maintain Your Own IT Infrastructure
CUAHSI is providing web-based data publication beginning in June 2014! This
means researchers can publish their data in the CUAHSI HIS without
downloading software as the uploading application will work with any major
web browser. The Water Data Centers catalog, HIS Central, is already
deployed in the cloud. All of the WDCs cloud-based tools are powered by
Microsoft Azure.
For those researchers who wish to maintain their own IT infrastructure,
HydroServer (Windows Server) and HydroServerLite (Linux) remain as
options. Additionally, HydroServer Interactive is a version of
HydroServerLite that has been translated to Spanish. Visit the websites
listed below for more information.
Right: HydroServer has been
traditionally deployed in Windows
Server 2008 and can include a website
as well as GIS functionality.
For more visit:
HydroServer.Codeplex.com
Left: HydroServerLite was developed as
Linux alternative.
For more, visit:
HydroServerLite.Codeplex.com
Right: HydroServer Interactive is a
version of HydroServerlite that has been
translated. So far, it is available in
Spanish in addition to English.
For more, visit:
WorldWater.BYU.edu